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 Little Crane prayed, as he struggled to had struck the tribe, and many had died.
keep his canoe off the rocks, "Great Spirit! And from then on, the beaver began to dis-
Help me!" appear from the little lakes and streams. It
And then, his paddle broke! was all because the ghosts of Ghost Island
Immediately the light craft's bow swung had laid a curse on anybody who set foot on
with the wind—headed swiftly toward the their shore.

foaming shore— the dreaded shore of GHOST And here was Little Crane, stranded on
ISLAND! that same shore— without a paddle! He shiv-
Little Crane, helpless to stop his drift, went ered again at the thought!
numb with fear. He would have tried to swim But Little Crone was a healthy boy— and
against the windsquall— but he felt now that a healthy boy does not give up to fear for
he must be in the grip of some powerful very long. The idea struck him, that the Great
fate which he could not fight. He sat huddled Spirit was mightier than any ghosts, and
in his tossing birchbark, not daring to look could protect him from them. He would make
up, until— a new paddle, and leave when the wind died.
With a great lift and a gentle thud, a last Before he realized it, Little Crane's search

wave landed him on a tiny slope of gravel for good paddle wood took him deep into

between the threatening rocks of the island! the big island's interior. There the land was
Little Crane was rolled out. Scrambling gently-rolling, and watered by a clear brook.

to his feet, hesaw the empty canoe lifted The brook spread out into a pond with grassy
on another wave. He grabbed for it— caught borders. It was beaver country— perfect
the gunwale, heaved it up out of reach of beaver country! But of course there were no
the battering lake surf. beavers . . . and no ghosts, thot Little Crane
With the canoe safe, he began to shake, could see!
portly with wet and cold, but mostly with At last the boy found a small tree from

fright. Was not this Ghost Island, haunted which he could split and whittle a paddle.

by the spirits of a long-vanished people? He set to a sunny corner of some

work, in

Ghost Island— from which his tribe on the rocks. And as he whittled away, he had a

mainland would altaw no one to return, lest vision! , , ,, ,. i

In his mind's eye, he sow the islands little

he bring a curse with him?
brook changed into a string of beaver ponds
Little Crane recalled how the story ran,
— wirh beavers working happily a; their house
told by the tribe's old men. Some yeors be-
building. Happily— because no hunter ever
fore Crane was^hprn, a young man had
Little
came to Ghost Island ro disturb them! It

been wrecked on Ghost Island. He had sent

was a daydream, but it seemed very reol.
up a smoke signal, and had been rescued by
And then another thought came to Little
his people. But soon afterwords a sickness
 "He who brings back the beaver, brings
great good!" the Chief replied. "We will
promise what you ask!"
What neither the Chief nor his people
guessed was that In the pas! five years Little

Crone had been secretly bringing live beavers

from far-off mountain ponds and slreams to
stock Ghost Island. And by now that big,
lonely island, where no one but- Little Crane
dared to go, was getting quite crowded with
beaver families. They had dammed up the
brook, and made new ponds, new beaver
meadows. And their great-great-grandchil-
dren were swimming across to the mainland
to start new beaver homes there.
Crane helped the migration,
Secretly, Little
taking many caged young beavers to cer-
tain brooks and ponds by night. It was a great
risk-far if any of his people had caught him
Crone: The Great Spirit HAD heard his prayer
coming from Ghost Island, they would have
—hod allowed the paddle to break, and his

canoe to be cast ashore— for a purpose!

made HIM o ghost—or tried to! But Little

Crane's courage never failed, for the Great

The purpose was that he, Little Crone, should'
bring the beaver families back to Ghost Spirit had given him this work to do.

Island!
When his paddle wos finished, it was night
-but Little Crane did not feel afraid of ghosts
now. And the darkness would hide him from
any watchers on the moinland! He pushed off
and drove his paddle deep into the dark lake
water. . . .

It was five years later, when Little Crane

came back to his own village on the shore of
the great lake.He was a man grown, now,
strongand handsome, and hard as ironwood.
And he brought gifts— knives and hatchets
and cloth and beads— which his people had
not been able to buy for mony years, be-
cause they had no -beaver skins lo trade.
He also brought two live beavers, in wire
cage's.

"I have been living with o distant tcibe,

whose hunting grounds are. rich in beaver,"
he told his people. "I have brought these two,
to start a new beaver colony in our streams.
You must promise not to kill them or ony of

their family for five more years. Then there

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